The Girl Who Saved The King Of Sweden

n a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young—be it from drugs, alcohol or just plain despair. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just fifteen, uses her cunning and fearlessness to get out of Soweto with millions of dollars' worth of smuggled diamonds in her possession. Then things take a turn for the worse...

Author(s): Jonas Jonasson
ISBN: 9781443431606
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: September 2015
Number of Pages: 387